by John Mullinder | May 14, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
An American environmental group is lashing out at Canadian logging companies and their customers for not supporting its preferred certifier of sustainable forest management, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)...
by John Mullinder | Apr 18, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry, Paper
Perhaps Indigo publisher and CEO Heather Reisman should stick to something she knows something about. She clearly doesn’t know much about forest and paper issues if her recent coffee-table book is anything to go by. It’s so loaded with false and misleading claims...
by John Mullinder | Oct 1, 2020 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
As a long-time admirer of Canadian broadcaster and author David Suzuki’s pungent style, it’s tough to have to point out three major errors in his latest opinion piece. I do so because his claim that paper does not represent a circular let alone a sustainable...
by John Mullinder | Oct 23, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Vancouver-based environmental group, Canopy, has launched a global campaign against paper packaging, claiming that three billion trees “disappear into packaging’’ every year leaving “a trail of deforestation, degraded forest systems, threatened species, and an...
by John Mullinder | Jan 21, 2019 | Fake News, Forestry
To most people, ancient means old, as in really old. Think of the ancient civilisations of Africa and Asia; of the Incas and the Mayans; and of the ancestors of today’s Indigenous peoples. When we turn to trees, the ‘ancient’ benchmark belongs to the bristlecone pine...
by Martin Fairbanks | Dec 14, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
If you’re working in the forest products industry you’ve probably had a similar experience to this. At a social occasion, somebody asks you what you do for a living. Then he or she brings up something they’ve heard in the media – deforestation,...
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